The Dillon tribune., 1887-11-18
CHILDREN OF THE RICH.
THE SOURCE OF ALL TRUE HAP
PlNEsS UNKNOWN TO THEM.

Facts Concerning the Most Neglected
Class in Any Community.The Ne'
strain,s which Wealth Imposes-Noth'
In, =, Wish and Plan For-Contrasts.
There is apparently nothing more need !
ed at this tire than a ''society lor tne
omelioration of the condition of the chill
dren of the rich" The poor children ap-
neal to the s,mpatllies Of every one; VIC
have them with us. on our hearts ana con-
sciences always. but the children OF the
rich are the most neglected class IN any |
community.
First. they are neglected by their own
parents. What with the summer months
at u gay watering place, and the winter
spent in the giddy whirl OF society, IL IS a
fort-nate child of the rich who knows its
oy, IA mother. The fathers business occu-
pies his time and thoughts; from ~
TO 90 years OF age he finds that all or
his faculties are required to repair the
damages of one panic and provide IN al.
vance for another II the child is we'll
clothed and has his or her school bills sent
in regularly. the man of business cares
believes he has fulfilled all the obligations
of an indulgent father, conscious that ne
has done more for his child than was done
for him.
Thus the child is driven back on his
nurse. or the groom, or the butlcr-ac-
corling to age or condition-fQr sympathy
and fellowship. Here, If not his manners,
his morals and his views OF life are
formed.
DELIGHTS THAT ARE DENIED.
But of these disadvantages the child is
not himself conscious until, later in life,
he reviews his beginnings. What most
troubles him is the restraint which the
wealth of his parents imposes OH his
action. He is cut off from the associates
of his own age, il we except a few Gagged
animals like unto himself. or the free
dom Of youth he knows little ur nothing.
The delight of anticipation is denied by
the qualification in advance Of all wishes
for balls. bats, kites, and the thousand
and one things which the happy boy Of
the poor makes for himself. No rich boy
ever felt the thrill Of delight, Of conscious
power which comes to the boy w:o has
constructed out of nothing IL kite that is
sailing to the stars and almost drawing
him after it. The boy Of the rich has
bought for him those lopsitled, fantastic
Japanese abortiOns which do not take
naturally to the varying waves of our up
per atmosphere.
For the child Of the rich there is moth
ing to wish for, to plan for, to deny ones
self for; everything is ut his command,
and his bOyish nature is s,nothered by his
unusual privileges. II he is permitted to
90 to the circus ut all. it is only with some
old fellow whose memory Of his youth has
faded, and to whom the smell Of the saw
dust has no suggestion o. past delight,
and as he paid Mt the door for n reserved
seat the poor child of destiny has no thrill
Of fear and terror when the hoy with tho
lemonade whispers to the man at the door
and points significantly in his direction.
IN Ills NATURAL. STATE.
A boy in his natural state Is an animal
who revels i'll the freedom of disorder, and
under the system Of doing for himself
learns to do for others. Every faculty he
has is Qtickcncd by exercise and hidden
strength developed under necessity. But
the son Of the rich is, as we have said, a
Gagged and pampercd animal. Before he
reaches years Of conscious intelligence he
is the 1'ictim of ennui, and all ambition
has died within him. He is not spurred
ON by the thought that one day he may bc
president; he does not understand why
one should want to be president. and. be-
sides, he learns from school books that il
is II position reserved for the sons of pool
but honest parcrts.
The contrasts, rs they suggest them.
selves. are innumerable-thcy are suffi
cicut for Il volume. Enough have beer
noted to convince the reasonable mar
who has in his mind any recollection ol
his youth, that the children of the ricf
have rs yet an unrecognized claim on oul
sympathies; that they live without fear ol
hope: that they arc denied alike the pain!
and pleasures Of early years; that the!
are imprisoned from the beginning, and S,
hcdgetl in by conventionalism that tn
source Of all true happiness is ever IN
known to them. 1t is strange that in thi
pcriod Of the world, with philanthropic:,
. societies innumerable we should not hav
organized y Society for the Amelioratio,
, OF the Condition Of the Children OF tn
Rich.-lAMisvillc Courier Journal.
i Queer Japanese Custom.
Riding up the wide street short uls
, tance we come To the United States con